Welcome to the Carbunkle movie club! Today’s feature is HyperNormalisation a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. In the film, Curtis argues that since the 1970s, governments, financiers, and technological utopians have given up on the complex “real world” and built a simple “fake world” that is run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on the BBC iPlayer.
What’s the answer to the problem of global politicians playing a game with the truth? This movie is super spooky and rings mostly true with me. The film offers an interesting take on the the current bizarro political situation by tracing the manipulation of people by those in power back to the days of Bashar Al-Assad’s daddy. There were days when I thought the internet would allow common people all over the world to communicate directly with each other and take control of the systems of power by peaceful means. After watching HyperNormalisation, I see how a monkey wrench has been thrown into that idea by politicians, bankers, etc… We are manipulated to disagree and argue with each other to the point of hatred. It doesn’t matter what we argue about, as long as we disagree and fight with each other. The distraction allows the powerful to maintain the system that keeps them in power.
Citizen dialogue is important to democracy. Compromise is at the core of that dialogue. It’s great to have strong beliefs but when you get angry with someone whose beliefs are different you miss a chance to learn something. Lots of times, people are split by beliefs, cutting off friends or family because of one particular issue. It’s difficult to engage with someone who has beliefs that are offensive to you but there’s always more to a person than one particular belief. Rufus knows whats up. https://youtu.be/efTwYSuqIgo
Carbunkle subscribes to the idea that punk rock will save the world. We are working on some ideas to spread a message of community organization at our local level and promote citizen engagement in the political system. We are not here to push political ideology on anyone, there’s too much in this world to make fun of for that, we only hope to find ways for people to get involved at a local level and work with their neighbors to improve the community.
Fortunately, the distribution of zines is yet to be compromised by the elite/illuminati/banking cabal/freemasons/reptilian/political class.
-chim
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